Over the past decade or so, greater Portland has developed a well-deserved reputation as one of the nation’s very best places to live.
adminApril 28, 2008
Stage III of Noosa’s Creative Communities project was held at Noosaville, with 30 of the region’s best and brightest taking part in a two-day Creative Communities Leadership Program workshop designed to identify some key initiatives to generate greater economic prosperity.
adminApril 23, 2008
North Texas has 46,300 more single men than single women – the fourth-largest male surplus in the country.
adminApril 22, 2008
Florida — social theorist, geographer, urban planner and guru of the globalization debate — believes the place we choose to live has more of a bearing on future success and happiness than the more micro-level decisions of career and relationships.
adminApril 21, 2008
” Who’s Your City? is another breakthrough idea by urban life genius Richard Florida. If you are contemplating a move or know someone who is, or are even vaguely interested in the idea of place as self, this book is a must read.”
adminApril 13, 2008
Everyone has heard the theory by now: Thanks to the Internet and other high-tech elements of globalization, the world is flat. That is, economic forces are increasingly spread across a world without boundaries, helped by everything from faster transportation to the Web.
adminApril 13, 2008
Seattle already has the ingredients of what author Richard Florida calls a superstar city: an abundance of talent, knowledge industries, tolerance and the kind of dense, urban fabric that encourages the creative class to thrive.
adminApril 13, 2008
“If everything that exists has a place, place too will have a place, and so on ad infinitum.” — Aristotle. It’s not very often that the author of a book discussing economics and sociology for a general readership starts with a quote by the Greek philosopher Aristotle. But when the writer is the thought-provoking intellectual Richard Florida — who claims in his new book, “Who’s Your City?,” that the selection of where to live ranks as life’s most important decision — it’s easier to see why he found Aristotle’s quote both appropriate and prescient.
adminApril 13, 2008